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Was there ever any practice of writing youon digraphs as a single character (taking up the same amount of space as a monograph), and if not would that be a good idea?

e.g. ハロｳｨーン or ハロｳｲーン instead of ハロウィーン, where ｳｲ (ｳｨ) would be treated as a single character.

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  • Someone might have done it for funny effect. Recently, technical difficulty of mixing hankaku kana has been solved for the most part, but I wouldn't recommend it in terms of readability.
    – user4092
    Nov 1, 2017 at 9:51
  • Although it is interesting, I think it is difficult to change the habit familiar to Japanese people. Why don't you think about the idea to express the singular form of "they/their/them/theirs" instead?
    – user20624
    Nov 1, 2017 at 12:32
  • 「キョウモト」（京本）→「ｷｮウモト」「ｷﾖウモト」、「ショウコ」（翔子）→「ｼｮウコ」「ｼﾖウコ」、ってことですよね。。。既に全部半角の場合（eg「ｷｮｳ‌​ﾓﾄ」「ｼｮｳｺ」とか。銀行振り込みとか‌​の。）はどうするんでしょう・・・
    – chocolate ♦
    Nov 2, 2017 at 7:19

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There is no such rule in the Japanese grammar and I don't think it would be a good idea. I think it just weird.

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    This has nothing to do with grammar.
    – user4032
    Nov 1, 2017 at 15:46

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